From the Film Maker...

The image of St Francis clutching a skull reminds me of Hamlet's musings on mortality. This made me question the plight of the modern male in today's society. I decided to transpose Hamlet's fatal flaw of indecision onto today's MTV generation and the perils of a society saturated by television, a place ‘dying of too much choice.'

I constructed the film as if it were a music video. I created a baroque pattern of imagery led by the idea of a young man who essentially imagines a dual between himself and his alter ego.

Visually I created this effect by depicting a typically masculine scene such as a stand-off or shoot out typical in action movies and parodying it in a Sergio Leone style.

I concentrated on the idea of the modern male as a philosopher trapped in an endless circle of questioning that essentially adds up to inaction.

Instead of a skull, I used a ball to act as a catalyst for the action in the film. Music is an important factor in this film. Since the market for modern music has become so saturated and the advent of the digital age has made music so accessible, the characters in the film are never without headphones. These headphones not only represent the disconnectedness of people from their environment but also act as a symbol for a remote control where the next track is always ever only a click away
Faith Selby